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Field Visit
Date 8 December 2005
Event ID 1001154
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1001154
Headland Archaeology Ltd was commissioned to carry out a desk-based assessment and walkover survey of land along the western side of Viewcraig Gardens, and lying directly behind the Pleasance Sports and Exercise Centre and Sports Union of the University of Edinburgh, which occupy two former 19th Century breweries. Map evidence suggests that whilst most of this area was scarped during the construction of the Dumbiedykes housing estate in the 1960s/1970s, some level areas directly behind the former breweries may be undisturbed. Archaeological remains relating either to the breweries, or to earlier post-medieval settlement/cultivation around the extra-mural suburb of Pleasance, may, therefore, survive.
Headland Archaeology 2005
